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John Berger,Jean Mohr

Another Way of Telling

  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    Every revolutionary protest is also a project against people being the objects of history.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The most definite information this photograph gives is about the type of bridle the horse is wearing, and this is certainly not the reason why it was taken.
  • Дмитрий Безугловhar citeretfor 4 år siden
    For myself, I’m not too fat, my nose is large but not unreasonably long. And yet for years I could not accept my own physical appearance. I used to dream of looking like Samuel Beckett. (To have a profile like his would perhaps also imply another way of life.)
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    All subjectivity is treated as private, and the only (false) form of it which is socially allowed is that of the individual consumer’s dream.
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    What was achieved was unprecedented scientific and technical progress and, eventually, the subordination of all other values to those of a world market which treats everything, including people and their labour and their lives and their deaths, as a commodity.
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    What sustained them all as practices was the belief that observable quantifiable facts, recorded by scientists and experts, would one day offer man such a total knowledge about nature and society that he would be able to order them both.
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    Personal psychology replaces philosophy as an explanation of the world.
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    The space for this construction is, as it were, cleared by his rejection of what he did not choose to photograph.
  • Janna S.har citeretfor 2 år siden
    Today, when things are changing politically and it seems possible for man to change his fate, such people are becoming aware of the differences between different countries.
  • Yokosquawhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Why is it that what is useful is always so ugly?
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